Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Yemen and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Guru Guru,
Q65,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Halsall,
Erykah Badu,
The Fire Engines,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David McCallum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kayak,
Dead Boys,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Wake,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jeff Lynne,
Young Marble Giants,
Lucky Dragons,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
This Heat,
Marvin Gaye,
Bluetip,
Flamin' Groovies,
June of 44,
Roxette,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Blossom Toes,
Freddie Wadling,
Unwound,
The Music Machine,
The Leaves,
Masters at Work,
Bill Near,
Roxy Music,
Radiopuhelimet,
China Crisis,
John Holt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Motorama,
Surgeon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Sheep,
Parry Music,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Wyatt,
The Dirtbombs,
The Offenders,
Ornette Coleman,
ABBA,
Lalann,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Amazonics,
X-Ray Spex,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.